David Greenfield

… compulsive gamblers do. Though only one in 10 Americans are probably true addicts, as many as 90 percent of us “abuse” our internet devices, according to David Greenfield, director of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction. One consequence of device “abuse” is multitasking, the practice that makes 18 daily hours of content consumption possible…

wsj.com - The increasing sophistication of our computing devices—all of which, being built by companies with powerful financial incentives to capture our attention—are now instruments of a distraction-industrial complex.